Y’know -like- uh, it’s like that Buffy Episode, y’know where -like- everybody was singing ‘cuz Zander called on that Broadyway Demon-guy and-uh- like i forgot what i was saying…
Oh yeah, -like- spoofing IDiots in song ROCKS!!!

One of the more religious types I work with (and there are many) just came in all excited about the commercial he saw on Comedy Central for Expelled. All I could do was laugh. He caught me after reading the lyrics linked to above.

You know, I actually heard a xtian mangling of Imagine on some fundie radio channel (the guys remodelling our house listen to some xtian radio station Oy!), where they replaced the lyrics with “Imagine one religion” and I think something like “hell below us/above us only god”
It was more nauseating than most of the self-congratulatory pablum they play on there. I’ll be glad when they’re done (and yes I’m well aware of the whole xtian carpenters thing, isn’t that funny. Maybe I should get a few crucifixes installed for good measure?)

#6: “Robot Monster” is certainly a horrible excuse for a movie, but it isn’t an Ed Wood – it was directed by Phil Tucker, and written by Wyott Ordung. If anything, it’s ever so slightly *worse* than the stuff Ed Wood wrote and directed.

Got a charge out of this, on the “Expelled” website: “It’s (EXPELLED) going to appeal strongly to the religious, the paranoid, the conspiracy theorists, and the ignorant — which means they’re going to draw in about 90% of the American market.”
-Atheist blogger and fabulist PZ Myers, on a film he has not yet seen.

Definition of chutzpah: blocking a person from seeing a movie, then criticizing him for not seeing it.

Why don’t you engage the substance of Ben’s statements, instead of mocking him?

Glen, engaging Ben Stein’s “arguments” requires mocking him. If these were the arguments of a child or mentally incapable person, they would demand serious response. But they’re not. And as such, they require our laughter.

As a public service, I’ll let you try to find the one I wrote. No URL. Like telling people, “You won’t believe what I read on Town Hall. Nope, I’m not giving you the URL. In fact, I have to go wash my eyes out with soap now.”

Moving on, this seems to meet the ethical specifications of the Expelled sleazeballs:

Ticket stubs benefit school

MOSINEE — Wisconsin Valley Lutheran High School is collecting ticket stubs from “Expelled,” and will receive a donation for each stub turned in by May 2.

The movie “Expelled” opens in theaters Friday. It addresses the subject of evolution in schools through the eyes of a character who is studying intelligent design.
Mail movie ticket stubs to WVLHS, 601 Maple Ridge Road, Mosinee WI 54455.

I am the very model of a devious creationist
I’ve made a film that’s best described as stolen-animationist
I know the use of rhetoric when facts are unavailable
To render the impossible into the unassailable

I’m very well acquainted, too, with data manufacturing
I’ll claim I stand on solid granite even as it’s fracturing
I document complexity, like when it’s irreducible…
And think my movie’s in the league of Arthur Miller’s Crucible

And think my movie’s in the league of Arthur Miller’s Crucible
And think my movie’s in the league of Arthur Miller’s Crucible
And think my movie’s in the league of Arthur Miller’s Crucible

I’m very good at lying, both the verbal and statistical–
Like Darwin in his later years, I’m openly theistical
In short, you might describe me as a mental masturbationist
I am the very model of a devious creationist

(that will have to do for now… if I take the time to finish it, we’ll be on comment 600… Perhaps I will complete it and put it up on my own site…)

Does anyone have a URL to that tickets for dollars promotion? I seem to remember it had weasel words that they will exchanges tickets for money as funds allow. So if they didn’t allocate funds past the promised $10,000 top-prize then most of the dupes will receive only a no-prize. Indeed, if Yoko Ono, Harvard, XVIVO, etc. sue them into chapter 7, then even the $10,000 may not have to be paid.

We need a recognition signal if we see each other at the movies this weekend. I would proposed carrying a package of shredded squid jerky in honor of PZ, but most theaters crackdown on outside food, and only in Morris and Ipswitch do the movie vendors cater to the squid-friendly.

My google adwords campaign recently ran out of money and I’ve decided against adding any more funds. Hopefully at least one person googling for ‘expelled’ (or any of the other terms listed below [see image]) saw the teaser for the ExpelledExposed.com site, clicked on it and got the full story.

ps. For a while, the ad for ExpelledExposed.com was sitting up there at the number one sponsored position (listed before the search results and highlighted in yellow) when you searched for ‘expelled’ at google.com. It was even listed before the ExpelledTheMovie.com website. I thought that was pretty funny.

* I have no idea how google adwords chooses the positioning for it’s ads. It seemed to choose random CPC (cost per click) values and ad positions. It’s sort of like playing the slot machines…

Please – no more! I’m in serious danger of contracting Pharyngulitis – or becoming a Pharyngulaholic, or something. I’ve heard there are some other web pages on the Internet somewhere, but I just can’t seem to drag myself away from here…

MikeM – go and stand in the corner! Cuttlefish (and Tom Lehrer’s Elements) are both parodies of “I am the very model of a modern Major General” from Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance (No, not Pinafore either). Cuttlefish – you HAVE to finish that, it’s brilliant.

When I copy and they tell me “desist”,
Gonna go to the place that’s the best
When I get caught in a lie,
Goin’ up to designers in the sky
Goin’ up to designers in the sky
That’s where I’m gonna go when I lie
When I lie and they tell me desist
Gonna go to the place that’s the best

DJ actions might come a bust
Gotta have a friend in Jesus
So you know that when you lie
He’s gonna recommend you
To designers in the sky
Gonna recommend you
To designers in the sky
That’s where you’re gonna go when you lie
Steal in God’s name but they tell you desist
You’re gonna go to the place that’s the best

I sorta copied and I maybe infringed
I got a friend in Jesus
So you know that when I lie
He’s gonna set me up with
Designers in the sky
Oh set me up with designers in the sky
They’ll protect me when I lie
Texas judges might not let me rest
But Designers will protect me the best
Gonna go to the place that’s the best.

Cuttlefish: your tip-jar is what will induce me to finally set up a PayPal account, and I will visit it before too much longer. I encourage other readers herein to do likewise. You’ve earned it many times over. (A bow of deep respect.)

Take care of that headache, for you know all too well that you will be called upon again for your insights in times of need, as we once needed Gary Larson (and still do).